Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program
Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified
as a war criminal he was a man of profound moral complexities whose intelligence and charisma
were coupled with an enormous and some would say blinding ambition. Based on new sources
Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the
creator of the V-2 rocket and his times detailing how he was a man caught between morality and
progress between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.
